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Lagging economy sparks rise in UCO enrollment

By Trent Dugas StaffWriter

Uco is seeing an increase in student' enrollment this 1999 spring semester. The rise can be directly linked to the lagging economy in Oklahoma, said Evelyn Wilson, dean for admission and records in Enrollment Services.

With 13,413 students taking 142,279 credit hours this semester, enrollment is up 2.17 percent and the hours are up three percent compared to last year.

Wilson said it is wonderful to see enrollment trends going back up after the previous years of decline. She also said a sluggish economy makes enrollment numbers go up. "I think a lot of it has to do with the economy," Wilson said. "Especially here in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Traditionally, when the economy is good, enrollment numbers are down. I think you'll find that, not only were they down at UCO, they were down everywhere."

According to the statistic report from admissions and records, compared to Spring 1998, freshman, sophomore and graduate students are higher in numbers, with junior and senior students dropping off slightly.

V See ENROLLMENT, Page 2 Compared to Spring 199 , freshman, sophomore and graduate students are higher in numbers, with junior and senior students dropping off slightly.

New cafeteria opens, joins fight for burger buck

By David Bradley StaffWriter

Tired of Broncho Burger and El Broncho? Are Trattoria and Chick-FilA getting a little old? If so, relief is on the way; a new cafe is preparing to open.

Central Station, an idea over a year in the making, is preparing to open its doors on March 2. "It is going to offer more variety on the menu than other places on campus," senior and class member Holly Aston said. "It's a place students can go eat, study or meet with groups."

The cafe is being completely put together by the Institutional Food Management class, and is being supervised by Dr. Marilyn Waters. "This has been a studentplanned operation from the beginning," Waters said. "They decided on such things as where to have the cafe and how to get funding for the project."

The initial idea to open the cafe originated from Waters in the middle of the 1997-98 year. Normally, students enrolled in her senior-level class would mentor with managers in different areas of food service. But, according to

It is going to offer more variety on the menu than other places on campus...

— Holly Aston

UCO Senior

Waters, that's becoming very difficult. "Food service has really become competitive," Waters said. "It's making it to where managers' time is very limited and they cannot mentor anymore."

Therefore, she decided to open a facility herself, with the help of her students.

She wrote a letter to the Oklahoma Board of Regents asking for a grant to fund the operation. They agreed and everything started coming together.

Students began looking into different types of facilities, and

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A group of university officials (top) including L-R Lennis Pederson, Facilities Management director; UCO President Roger Webb, Elizabeth Wetzel,Capstone Development vice president Nicholas Harrison, RHA president, Cornelius Wooten, Administration and Finance vice president; Derreck Belase, UCO Student Government president; Kathryn Gage, Student Affairs vice president; Bob Rudkin, Edmond mayor; Judge Powers; Amanda Danskin, freshman; and Todd Duncan, Campus Residential Life director took up shovels last week to turn dirt as part of the University Commons groundbreaking ceremony last week.

Before the digging, an elated Webb (left) smiles wide as he speaks briefly about the complex which is to be completed later this year.

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Freshman enrollment is 2,679 from the previous 2,414; sophomore enrollment is up to 1,906 from 1,855 and graduate enrollment is up to 2,559 from 2,472.

Junior enrollment is down 2,333 from last years 2,447 and senior enrollment is down to 3,936 from 3,393.

UCO's focus is on recruiting high school juniors and seniors and trying to encourage them to attend UCO, Wilson said. "We have been doing some innovative things with our academic advisement center," Wilson said. "Our advisors, on a weekly basis, visit community colleges in our area like Rose State College, Oklahoma State University in Oklahoma City, Redlands Community College, and Oklahoma City Community College. They have a standing time they go visit those colleges each week. We have also expanded that plan to more of a statewide mission."

The report said full-time enrollment is up to 8,019 from 7,750 and part-time enrollment is up to 5,394 from 5,378.

New freshman attending UCO are up to 518 from 458. Wilson said UCO's personnel improvements are also responsible for more freshman students wanting to attend. "Increasing the recruiting staff has helped us to get the word out more than we have been able to in the past," Wilson said. "We have had more assistance on the front line, helping with registration and those kinds of things, to get the lines through quicker. We have also been able to speed up the processing in financial aid."

Enrollment with financial aid is also up frQm 5,881 to 6,332; Over a 500-student increase receiving financial aid for tuition.

Jerry Legere, assistant vice president for Enrollment Management, said planned management, organization and hard work on the part of UCO is responsible for higher numbers. "There are a number factors here," Legere said. " One, the high school demographics are on our side in terms of between 1994 to 2005, the rate of high school graduates is increasing. So we are getting our fair share of opportunities. "Some of the emphasis is being placed on this campus and some of the activities going on. We are starting to draw attention as UCO being the place to be.". Legere was not surprised at the increase of students working toward business administration majors, with a decrease in liberal arts, math and science and the common problem plaguing Oklahoma. Students who are not majoring in education and going on to become teachers.

Legere said, "In a community like Edmond, it is very difficult to get a job as a teacher, unless you are willing to go out to some of the rural areas, then it is much easier to get a job. There may be a number of people who come to UCO who are not willing to go to rural areas, so they may not choose a teaching career option."

UCO has the largest PostBaccalaureate enrollment of Oklahoma public institutions and ranks third largest in headcount of Oklahoma public, four-year institutions.

We are starting to draw attention as UCO being the place to be... —Jerry Legere, enrollment management assistant vice president

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CAFE Continued from front page even marketing to get ideas. They finally decided to undertake opening a coffee shop. "The students have done a wonderful job," Waters said.

When the cafe opens, students will rotate jobs, thus getting experience in the different positions of food management: manager, marketing manager, business manager and production manager. "The students really need that experiece," Waters said. "If there's no change, then there's no challenge."

Because of the different rotations of management, aspects of the menu will also change on occasion. "This is an accumulation of everything students have learned in past years," Waters said. "Most of the students are last semester seniors and it pulls everything together."

In addition, students have written the job description, have done accounting, supply and demand and many other aspects.

This is the third semester of development, and help in the process has grown leaps and bounds. When development of Central Station began, it was only being put together by Waters and her class. Since then, the project has received assistance from many other departments around campus.

For instance, the logo was designed by the Watch Tower, under the supervision of Dr. Jim Watson of visual arts and design. Dr. Kenneth Larson of human environmental sciences developed the bar and other aspects of the cafe. The physical plant has also helped with contracting and construction.

Members of the Bursar's Office have provided assistance by finding equipment and opening accounts.

Some students in the course have even enrolled in journalism classes in order to learn different

marketing and advertising skills. "Everyone has been so helpful," Waters said. "There is a wonderful network of people working on t h e development."

Aston agrees."It's a huge process," she said. "There's a lot of guesswork involved, but we are receiving a lot of help."

The cafe will only serve lunch and will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Coffee, pastries and sandwiches will be included in the menu.

Central Station will be located in the Human Environmental Science Building in Room 111. It will be accessible from the exterior door on the north side of the building or the east door facing Broncho Lake. "The students are loving it and I think it's going to be a lot of fun," Waters said.